Social Media


Social Media marketing is a term that describes use of social networks, online communities, blogs, wikis or any other online collaborative media for marketing, sales, public relations and customer service. Automate your Social Media marketing as much as possible.

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Popular Social Media Tools:

Twitter
Twitter is a service which allows users to send and read messages known as tweets.
CREATE YOUR TWITTER PROFILE...
Facebook
FaceBook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook
CREATE A SMALL BUSINESS FACEBOOK PAGE...
YouTube
You Tube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos
CREATE YOUR YOU TUBE CHANNEL...
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a social networking site mainly used for professionals
CREATE A LINKED IN BUSINESS PROFILE...
Flickr
Flickr is an image and video hosting website, and online community platform
CREATE YOUR FLIKR PHOTO GALLERY...

Other social media sites (ad nauseum)
I say ad nauseum here, because if you search for social media networks, the list shown on Wikipedia is almost endless (because it continues to grow)

Automating your Social Media tasks with Sendible

Sendible is a simple online Tweet scheduling tool for Twitter.  Sendible allows you to schedule Tweets on a recurring basis over time, which is very effective for events and daily or weekly specials.
CREATE YOUR SENDIBLE ACCOUNT FOR TWEET SCHEDULING NOW...


Why use Social Media tools?

Social Media applications offer many benefits to small and large business owners.
  • Promoting your business to local community members, or to a global audience
  • Offering daily specials to draw in local buyers
  • Offering daily specials to promote global sales on your web site
  • Talk about things you are passionate about, allowing potential clients to get to know you
  • Creating promotional video, or video tutorials to help your clients understand  your products or services better
  • One way back links to your website offers good "Google Juice" to help with ranking
Social Media takes up too much of my time!
  • Join only the Social Media communities that are relevant to your business
  • Join other Social Media communities that discuss things you are passionate about
  • Automate your Social Media tasks as much as possible, so that you are creating your updates in your "free" time
Here are my Social Media tools:
  • Twitter - Allows me to communicate with potential clients quickly and promote clients in the areas that i am in "at the moment"
  • Facebook - A Facebook business page allows me to be communicate on a more personal level.  You get to KNOW people (clients) on Facebook
  • You Tube - A You Tube channel allows me to promote various groups and clients using video, and they can imbed these video files on their website
  • LinkedIn - Allows me to keep in touch with business aquaintances, past and present
  • Tweetdeck - Computer software that allows me to manage and update all of my Social Media accounts from one convenient location
  • Sendible - Online software that allows me to schedule Social Media communications at my leisure, when free time is available
  • UberTwitter - Blackberry client software which allows Tweeting while away from the office, and includes a map function.  This is useful to notify others about a client location, or special

By promoting others on Twitter, they will promote you.  This is a benefit to all.

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